The original text is:
Retirement is not an official, as long as you have money in your pocket, millet in your warehouse and poetry in your stomach, you are the prime minister in the mountains.
Pray for Chinese New Year without taking medicine. I hope you are healthy, carefree, and have no creditors. You are a fairy on the earth.
Horizontal batch: happy every day.
Couplets mean: don't spend too much money in your pocket, just spend enough; There is rice in the warehouse, not too full, just enough to eat, and a roll of favorite books at hand, so that life is comfortable enough, so why pursue the ultimate wealth? As long as the body is not sick, the heart is not sad, and no creditors come to the door, it can be called a fairy day.
Extended data:
Li Hongzhang's Achievements in Calligraphy Culture
While commenting on Li Hongzhang's merits and demerits, people gradually noticed his calligraphy art. Through his large amount of pen and ink, we saw his extraordinary calligraphy skill. However, few people mentioned that he was a man with high cultural accomplishment and a calligrapher with deep attainments in the late Qing Dynasty.
Li Hongzhang's fan is on an irregular fan, with orderly layout and harmonious characters. Beauty jumps like a lively pearl, and the lines are measured, sparse but not chaotic. It is refreshing and pleasing to the eye, and it can be called a masterpiece of calligraphy, which shows Li Hongzhang's profound calligraphy attainments.